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Monday, November 25, 2013

In 2007 Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner was interviewed on the subject of sea levels. He is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for some 35 years.

“You have Vanuatu, and also in the Pacific, north of New Zealand and Fiji— there is the island Tegua. They said they had to evacuate it, because the sea level was rising. But again, you look at the tide-gauge record: There is absolutely no signal that the sea level is rising. If anything, you could say that maybe the tide is lowering a little bit, but absolutely no rising.”

The most recent edition of Bloomberg Businessweek features a cover that says “This entire country is about to be wiped out by climate change. It won’t be the last.”It is devoted to Kribati, a Pacific island chain, and it is a total lie.

The media has been a co-conspirator to the global warming hoax and I take this latest example as one that reveals its utter desperation to maintain the greatest hoax of the modern era. The facts mean nothing to them. Real science means nothing to them. But reality is intruding on theirs and the United Nations environmental program just wrapped up Conference of Parties-19 in Warsaw, where more nations are now in open revolt.

Writing from the conference was Craig Rucker, the Executive Director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a think tank that has helped organize the Poles to protest this travesty. “Poland has been bullied for decades and they are not about to cede their energy independence to Russia, the UN or anyone. Nor should they.”

On November 21, Rucker reported that “COP-19 was shocked when China led a block of 132 nations in a walkout over ‘loss and damage.’ Loss and damage is a completely bogus concept that developed nations should be legally liable when natural disasters strike developing nations. There is of course no meaningful scientific or historical link that Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda was abnormal and with no global warming link.”

We owe a debt of gratitude as well to The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think tank, that has sponsored eight international conferences on global warming since 2008 and recently released a report,“Global Warming Reconsidered II.” Like CFACT it has been on the forefront of those seeking to educate the public regarding the phony science claims put forth.

COP-19 was one more UN conference leading up to a new version of the Kyoto Protocol that required nations that signed onto it to reduce their so-called greenhouse gas emissions. The final push will come in 2015 in Paris.

Nations that did sign on—the U.S. Senate unanimously refused to ratify the treaty when the Protocol was initially introduced in 1997—are realizing the economic harm that it imposed on them. The same afternoon of the China-led walkout, Poland announced that it had fired its environmental minister who is also the president of the UN conference, two days before the conference was supposed to end!

The Protocol, as is the entire global warming aka climate change hoax, is based on the lie that carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere is causing it to warm. In recent years CO2 has increased in the atmosphere and the Earth, some fifteen or more years ago, entered a cooling cycle. It is getting colder.

“Never underestimate what a gathering of bureaucrats and carbon profiteers might accomplish when after your money”, warned Rucker.

A November 20 article in The Daily Caller reported that “It’s worth noting that U.S. diplomats were specifically instructed by the Obama administration to oppose any attempts to create an independent fund for climate reparations from rich countries to poor countries.” Three days later the administration announced that it now supports all nations declaring their targets for reducing CO2 emissions before 2015. Rucker warns that this now clears “the path for the UN to adopt a full climate treaty and successor to the Kyoto Protocol in 2015.” If the Senate is not controlled by Republicans at that point, it would permit the administration to sign onto a treaty. The harm to the economy would be incalculable.

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott, elected recently to undo the damage of a carbon tax, told the Washington Post “Despite a carbon tax of $37 a ton by 2020, Australia’s domestic emissions were going up, not down. The carbon tax was basically socialism masquerading as environmentalism and that’s why it’s going to get abolished.” Australia did not send a representative to COP-19. Canada dropped out of the Protocol in recent years. Japan is abandoning the UN’s greenhouse gas emission reduction levels by allowing them to grow by three percent.

Nation by nation the UN global warming hoax is being abandoned for the obvious reason that it is a lie perpetrated to transfer wealth from the developed nations to those less developed. It was never about saving the Earth from a global warming; that was a lie from start to finish.

Some journalists are trying to tell the truth, but magazines like BusinessWeek and newspapers like The New York Times continue to keep the hoax alive. An informed population, not just in the United States, but increasingly worldwide, will ensure that it dies a long overdue death.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

When you consider that a bunch of global warming propagandists, the 19th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions has been meeting in Warsaw this month are still claiming that we are in the midst of global warming, you have a demonstration of how great a hoax has been perpetrated on the peoples of the world. These people and the scientists who supplied the falsified and inaccurate climate models to support the global warming claims have committed a criminal fraud.

Bit by bit, the truth in the form of increasingly cold weather is causing people to wonder whether they are being duped. The media has either buried the stories of extraordinary cold events or continues to tip-toe around the truth.

An example is a recent Wall Street Journal article by Robert Lee Hotz,“Strange Doings on the Sun”, Hotz reported that “Researchers are puzzled. They can’t tell if the lull is temporary or the onset of a decades-long decline, which might ease global warming a bit by altering the sun’s brightness or the wavelengths of its light.”

After describing the fact that the Sun has entered a period of reduced sunspot activity, always a precursor to a cooling cycle and even an ice age, Dr. David Hathaway, head of the solar physics group at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, is quoted as saying “It may give us a brief respite from global warming, but it is not going to stop it.”

Plainly said, you cannot trust what government scientists have to say about global warming. The government’s policy since the late 1980s has been that global warming is real and poses a great threat to the Earth. What Dr. Hathaway and other “warmists” are desperately trying to ignore is the fact that the Earth entered a natural and predictable cooling cycle around 1997 or 1998. It has been cooling ever since!

In 1997 Robert W. Felix authored the definitive book on the coming ice age in his book, “Not by Fire, but by Ice.” It is still widely available. His website, IceAgeNow.info provides updated information on the many weather events around the world that demonstrate an ice age—whether it is a mini-ice age or a full-scale one—is occurring. Felix says that a major Ice Age, when it begins, will come on very swiftly.

One post on Felix’s website is about Victor Emanuel Velasco Herrera, a geophysicist at the University of Mexico, who predicts that the “Earth will enter a ‘Little Ice Age’ which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.” You don’t have to be a geophysicist to figure out that less solar activity adds up to a colder Earth.

2014 is the year many scientists believe an ice age, “mini” or full-scale will begin. Herrera hedged his prediction saying that “with the mass production of current carbon dioxide (CO2) it is unlikely that we will see a major ice age like the one experienced 12,000 years ago.” Carbon Dioxide plays no role in warming the Earth. It is a very minor element of the Earth’s atmosphere.

The implications of an ice age, no matter how long or short, is its impact on the growing of crops to feed everyone. Dr. Tim Patterson of Canada’s Carleton University’s Department of Earth Sciences, in a May 18, 2007 article in the Calgary Times, wrote that satellite data “shows that by the year 2020 the next solar cycle is going to be solar cycle 25—the weakest one since the Little Ice Age (that started in the 13th century and ended around 1860)…should be a great strategic concern in Canada because nobody is farming north of us. In other words, Canada—the great breadbasket of the world—might not be able to grow grains in much of the prairies.” This prediction applies as well, of course, to the U.S. production of grains.

Other scientists have been sounding the alarm, predicting dramatic cooling to begin in the current decade. Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, has noted that “Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012, real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.” While the years cited by scientists may differ, they are in agreement that we are looking at decades of cold.

In the years since the late 1980s when “global warming” was unleashed on the world as the greatest hoax of the modern era, billions have come to believe the Earth was threatened by greater warming cause by man-made “greenhouse gases” resulting from industrial and all other uses of fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. While carbon dioxide has, indeed, increased in the atmosphere, the truth is that the Earth has entered a cooling cycle and that it is on the cusp of very cold weather for decades. We could even cross over into a full-fledged Ice Age because one is overdue at this point in time.

You cannot depend on what the mass media tells you. They are hardwired to continue the global warming hoax. You can, however, educate yourself with books such as Robert Felix’s. You can use Google to find out more about ice ages. You can and should prepare yourself for changes in the Earth’s climate that will have vast impacts on the global economy and on the ability to grow enough crops to feed the world’s population.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Back in 1997, the United Nations held
a convention in Kyoto, Japan, that put together the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change. It was a treaty that required the nations that agreed to it to
reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions, principally carbon dioxide (CO2) in order to
save Earth from the perils of “global warming.” There were 192 parties to the
convention and, although the U.S. “signed” the treaty, the U.S. Senate
unanimously defeated participation. By 2011, our neighbor, Canada, withdrew from
it.

In Warsaw, Poland, for two weeks
starting on November 11, the usual group of climate change charlatans have
gathered for the 19th
Conference of the Parties (COP-19) to try to breathe life into this greatest of
all hoaxes. In 2009, COP-15, they had gathered in Copenhagen, but failed to come
to any agreement on a successor to Kyoto whose mandatory reductions were
initially applied to 37 developed nations,

Suffice to say that, as the years went
along, the nations that signed have grown increasingly disenchanted with the
deal.

First, there’s the little, itty-bitty
problem of the actual climate.

It began to cool around the same time
the alarmists were shouting that we were all doomed if we didn’t stop using
coal, oil, and natural gas because energy was the enemy. The Earth entered a
perfectly natural and predictable cooling cycle as the sun grew less active. In
Copenhagen, the delegates had to beat it out of town to avoid being stuck there
by a huge snowstorm. When Obama’s plane arrived in Washington, D.C., it was just
as a blizzard hit the city.

Obama is credited with “saving” the
Copenhagen conference by coming up with an agreement to create an annual fund of
$100 billion that would begin in 2020 to help poor countries deal with climate
change. Since the “Warmists” attribute every kind of climate disturbance to
climate change and Obama loves spending U.S. billion we do not have, it seemed
like a good idea at the time.

Why none of these numbskulls ever asks
themselves why they think nations can actually do anything about the climate
other than to undermine and make more costly their own energy needs defies an
answer. Meanwhile, part of the climate change hoax includes having the developed
nations throw billions at undeveloped nations. Indeed, that may be the main
reason.

Happily, there are observers at the
Warsaw conference who make it their business to expose the global warming lies
and monitor the climate change movement at home and abroad. As this is being
written, former Apollo VII astronaut, Walter Cunningham, is leading a delegation
from CFACT—the Committee for a Constructive
Tomorrow—a think tank that maintains the award-winning website,
ClimateDepot.com. Its editor, Marc Morano, is among the group watching the
machinations of COP-19.

CFACT’s Executive Director, Craig
Rucker, has joined with Poland’s Globalization Institute, Instytut Piotra
Skargi, the European Institute for Climate and Energy, and others to produce
three climate forums for Polish citizens and policy
makers.

This all may seem a bit esoteric. What
does a conference in Warsaw have to do with the many other problems facing
Americans these days? As Rucker points out, President Obama is looking to shift
the public debate from Obamacare to climate change, announcing “a huge new
emphasis on global warming at Georgetown (University) in June. In early
November, he unleashed an executive order “directly federal bureaucrats to
dramatically expand his global warming agenda.” Obama is moving on from health
care to “the next legacy of his radical administration—namely, climate
alarmism.”

We have been living with climate
alarmism since the late 1980s and the years that led up to the Kyoto Protocol.
Presently, the result has been an Environmental Protection Agency that has been
unleashed on the coal industry and all others, the waste of billions in loans to
so-called clean energy companies that promptly went bankrupt, and the
scare-mongering that passes for education in the nation’s
schools.

The failure of recent COPs to come to
any agreement is likely a good sign, suggesting that the climate change hoax is
running out of steam, even among the nations that initially supported it.

As Andrew Restuccia reported in
Politico, shortly before the Warsaw conference began, “The two-week talks
are a key step toward reaching a new global pact by 2015 that would take five
years later. No groundbreaking agreements are likely in Warsaw, where, experts
say, the main focus will be laying the groundwork for next year’s negotiations
in Lima, Peru, and final talks in Paris in 2015.”

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

On the surface, it might seem to make
sense for the President to want to “do something” about climate events such as
hurricanes, but there have always been hurricanes and blaming them and
everything from droughts to wildfires on “climate change” is not just absurd, it
is a deliberate lie that blames a rise in the amount of carbon dioxide, a
so-called but incorrectly named “greenhouse gas”, as the cause of these natural
events.

The President has issued an Executive
Order to ramp up efforts to address "climate change."

At the heart of the global warming
hoax has been this carbon dioxide lie, but there has been no warming for over 17
years and the many computer models that predicted it were wrong; many were
deliberately false.

When one looks at the actual facts
about climate related events, we find that in recent years there have been fewer
tornados with a decline of severe tornadoes over the past forty years. There has
been more than eight years without a major hurricane strike in the U.S. and the
nation has had the fewest number of forest fires for the past three
decades.

President Obama has made it known that
one of his goals—other than the destruction of the U.S. economy—has been to
reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by 17% by 2020. His Environmental Protection
Agency has been feverishly producing regulations that reflect his “war on coal”,
imposing rules on coal-fired plants that have already forced many to close. All
this is based on a lie. Even the Supreme Court has taken notice and will hear a
case that challenges the EPA. (It previously ruled carbon dioxide was a
“pollutant”, a baseless error.)

In general, Congress has refused to
take up most of Obama’s “climate change” agenda, especially his wish for a
carbon tax. So it comes as no surprise that he has issued an executive order on
November 1st allegedly to get
states and local communities to prepare for “the impact of global warming.”

Perhaps the most curious aspect of
this is that states have long had emergency response protocols and other laws in
effect that are intended to respond to various climate-related problems. Many
communities have plans in place. About the only thing the executive order would
achieve would be to layer on more rules that would doubtless come with a higher
cost.

In a recent edition of Human Events,
three prominent climate scientists, experts on forecasting Dr. Kesten C. Green,
on the faculty of the University of South Australia; Prof. J. Scott Armstrong of
the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Willie Soon, got together to write “The
Science Fiction of IPCC Climate Change”, reviewing the latest announcement
by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.

“Global warming alarmists nevertheless
claim that the ‘nearly all’ climate scientists believe dangerous global warming
will occur. This is a strange claim in view of the fact more than 30,000
American scientists signed the Oregon Petition, stating that there is no basis
for dangerous manmade global warming forecasts, and ‘no convincing evidence’
that carbon dioxide is dangerously warming the planet or disrupting the
climate.”

Forgive me if I ask you who you
believe; three experts on climate forecasting or Barack
Obama?

The forecast experts debunked the IPCC
assertion (and by extension Obama’s) noting that carbon dioxide is “a colorless,
odorless, non-toxic gas that is a byproduct of growing prosperity. It is also a
product of all animal respiration and is also essential for most life on Earth,
yet in total it makes up only 0.0004 of the
atmosphere.”

In May 2012, The Economist took note
of The Heartland Institute, calling it “the most prominent think tank promoting
skepticism about man-made climate change.” The Economist has long been an
advocate of global warming so this represents significant recognition of the
Chicago-based, free market think tank that has sponsored several international
conferences on the subject over the years.

Anyone who wants to get the facts
about the IPCC’s continued and relentless promotion of the greatest hoax of the
modern era can visit http://climatechangereconsidered.org/ and read “Climate Change Reconsidered
II”, a Heartland Institute project whose latest edition is a thorough review
that debunks the IPCC’s misleading “science.”

As the Human Events article notes,
“Other scientists contest the IPCC assumptions on the grounds that the
climatological effect of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide is trivial—and
that the climate is so complex and insufficiently understood that the net effect
of human emissions on global temperatures cannot be
forecasted.”

Obama’s latest executive order,
however, is not trivial. It continues the UN’s effort to deny access to the
benefits of the use of energy worldwide to increase development, provide
employment, and enhance the lives of the Earth’s
population.

Obama is gearing up “climate change”
as an issue to divert our attention from the many scandals and failures of his
administration.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.